A descriptive analysis of relations between parents' self-reported smoking behavior and infants' daily exposure to environmental tobacco smoke

Table 1 Demographic and smoking characteristics of the adult respondents (N = 47).

	N (%)
Demographic characteristics
Age
Mean 27.47
SD 5.32
Female gender	27 (57.45)
Partner present	42 (89.4)
Native language German	39 (83.0)
School education
Low (≤ 9 years)	16 (34.1)
Middle (10 - 11 years)	19 (40.4)
High (≥ 12 years)	12 (25.5)
Employment
Employed	16 (34.0)
Unemployed	9 (19.1)
Parenting time	16 (34.0)
Other	6 (12.8)
Household income per month ^a
< 1300 €	14 (53.9)
1300 - 2300 €	8 (30.8)
> 2300 €	4 (15.4)
Smoking characteristics
Smoking status of respondent ^b
Daily smoker	39 (83.0)
Less than daily smoker	3 (6.4)
Former smoker	2 (4.3)
Never smoker	3 (6.4)
Cigarettes per day (no.), daily smokers (n = 39)
Mean 16.23
SD 7.25

^a one household income is missing ^b daily smoker: smoked more than 100 cigarettes in lifetime and currently smoking at least one cigarette daily over the last four weeks; less than daily smoker: smoked more than 100 cigarettes and less than daily during the last 30 days; former smoker: smoked more than 100 cigarettes in lifetime and did not smoke during the last 30 days prior to the interview; never smoker: did not smoke, or smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their life.

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